Two other delicacies for bees often are among the most hated sights for meticulous lawn tenders and those with allergies: dandelions and goldenrod.

Bee business

Like humans, bees have to make a living.

Queen bees, which are fully sexually developed females, are on this earth to reproduce. Before a spiral upward "nuptial flight," they emit a pheromone, which lures male bees, called drones, to try to mate with them, Seets says.

Queens take seven to 17 mating flights in their lifetime, he says, and once fertilized they lay about 1,200 eggs per day.